A few new videos with Posterboy have popped up recently. I’ve featured Posterboy on Vandalog before, but for those who don’t know, Posterboy is a New York artist who goes through the subway system ripping up advertising and creating mashups of the ads to change around the message. Recently, he’s also branched out into just ripping billboards down and collaborations with aakash nihalani.
via Wooster Collective and Beautiful Crime
Also, check out Public Ad Campaign for similar shenanigans.
This is one show that I’m pretty excited about, but won’t be seeing in person. Know Hope is one of my favorite up-and-coming artists, and last week saw the opening of his second ever solo show. Ad Hoc Art in New York has Know Hope in their new Project Room space.
The show, “The Insecurities of Time”, features lots of new work from Know Hope, including and installation and some smaller pieces at pretty low prices.
Photos by Reid Harris Cooper
See more of the show at Arrested Motion
Work is for sale online on Ad Hoc Art’s website
Okay so I’ll be first to admit that I’m not the best with geography or world cities, but have you ever heard of Ghent? Apparently it’s quite a bit city in the Flemish half of Belgium. In Belgium, I’ve only ever been to Brussels and Waterloo.
Well, apparently street art fans should have heard of Ghent due to the large amount of street art to be found there. Extremely dedicated street art photographer _Kriebel_ has just posted pages and pages of work from the city, so here’s a couple of highlights. Do check out the rest of his flickr photostream though. Lots of really talented Belgian street artists who don’t get enough credit.
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So I’ve got a couple things to catch up posting on, so here’s my street art news post about all the cool stuff going on in street art and some of the awesome postings in the street art blogosphere.
1. Shepard Fairey was on The Colbert Report! Watch the video over at Hustler of Culture
2. Beautiful Crime and FarkFK are dropping canvases today througout London
3. Luna Park has written a nice piece on the recent “From The Streets of Brooklyn” show for Shift
4. StolenSpace Gallery has a show opening January 29th with the king of dissruptive realism: Brad Downey
5. Wooster Collective has suggestions for 6 people for art lover to follow on twitter (but don’t forget to follow Vandalog too)
Check out this cool piece of disruptive realism in the Netherlands. I’ll be visiting the Hague in two weeks, so maybe I’ll have see some more Dutch street to post about.
Via 24 oranges
C-Monster has a very good post up about the NY Post‘s recent comments about a wall in the city well-known for its graffiti/street art. Naturally, they are not too happy that it exists. I’ve not seen this wall in person, but based on the above photo by f.trainer, it looks like one of the city’s treasures.
Really cool project going on in Brooklyn recently that combines street art and photography (and not in that annoying Robin Rhode way).
Artists Matt Adams and Katie Sokoler made thought bubbles with images inside them, taped them throughout Brooklyn, and and photographed people walking by at just the right moment. The result is pretty clever (I think).
Via Urban Prankster and Concrete Canvas
I’m sort of squishing three posts into one here, but they’re all related.
1. From The Streets of Brooklyn opened this weekend at thinkspace gallery in LA. The show, curated by Ad Hoc Art’s Andrew Michael Ford, has taken a bunch of Brooklyn’s best and most prolific artists and put them all together to pretty much transport Bushwick/Williamsburg to LA. Looks like an absolutely fascinating show. Maybe something like it will come to London in the future (are you reading this Andrew?) Read a review here, check out more photos here, and go here to see thinkspace’s wrap up of the show.
2. One of the artists at From The Street of Brooklyn is Veng from Robots Will Kill. He’s being doing a few pieces lately which are a bit different, so I thought I’d post one of those. Woodcuts I think. There’s also a very nice little post on him at the Curbs & Stoops blog, a blog/gallery that I’ve just found but I really like (see item #3).
3. So basically I went to the Curbs & Stoops blog to read that post on Veng (hopefully you all have too). Then I clicked around the site a bit. Turns out, they are some pretty awesome folks. They’re all about getting art to people who normally wouldn’t have access to art. They have beautiful prints for sale at low prices, a blog that highlights some great artists, and 3 projects they are working on that sound great. The first project is Mission District Portraits. This summer, they went on the street and offered to take anybody’s picture for free. Good fun for all involved I’m sure. Then there is A Dollar For Your Story where you get paid $1 to tell a story on video to show the transformation that happens when people tell stories. Eventually, the stories will be shown online. Finally, their coolest project has to be the Mobile Art Gallery. This isn’t functioning yet, but it sounds like the best idea to come out of New York since probably ever. The Mobile Art Gallery is going to literally park wherever and sell art on a sliding scale so that anybody can afford it. Yes! Art for the people!
So that’s why today is a great day in art.
Photos from veng_rwk and Stephen_W
So I saw this article on Trendhunter, but their site is a bit disorganized, and I can’t even seem to find the correct photo gallery. So I went out looking for Obama street art pieces on my own. Here’s 16 of my favorite Obama pieces (in no particular order).
Only nine more days 🙂
Check out the rest of the images after the jump…
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So I’ve been looking through i.am.doom’s flickr a lot lately. He’s got some pretty cool work up, and his stencils are clean and well-executed. That’s more than I can say for a lot of the work on flickr, which is part of why he’s been impressing me. Besides meeting my pretty low standards for skill, i.am.doom also has unique imagery. Plenty of street artists use grenades, but his “Drop Knowledge Not Bombs” design just makes me smile with his new use of an old symbol.
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